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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 1: I hope you're blessed today.

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Speaker 4: Hey, everybody today, the Lord gave me a word he

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Speaker 4: can give it to me today.

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Speaker 3: Gave it to me Monday, so I've been sitting with

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Speaker 3: it all week, so i can't wait to get to it.

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Speaker 3: So I'm not going to do any announcements. So I'm

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Speaker 3: just going to get right to it because I'm excited.

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Speaker 3: We're going to revisit Genesis chapter thirty two, the scripture

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Speaker 3: that I shared last week. We're going to jump in

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Speaker 3: at verse twenty four. Some things that the Lord has

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Speaker 3: been dealing with me about and some things I believe

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Speaker 3: he wants to assure you about. This will be a

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Speaker 3: word of assurance for somebody today.

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Speaker 1: Genesis chapter thirty two, verse twenty four, The.

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Speaker 3: Bible says, so Jacob was left alone and a man

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Speaker 3: wrestled with him till daybreak. When the man saw that

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Speaker 3: he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of

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Speaker 3: Jacob's hip so that his hip.

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Speaker 1: Was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.

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Speaker 3: The man said, let me go for his daybreak, but

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Speaker 3: Jacob replied, I will not let you.

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Speaker 1: Go unless you bless me.

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Speaker 3: And I talked last week about the blessing of letting go,

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Speaker 3: that sometimes it's not our strength, but our surrender that

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Speaker 3: determines our ability to move forward in life. And specific

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Speaker 3: what Jacob was letting go of and this passage wasn't

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Speaker 1: Because watch this. The man asked him, what's your name? Jacob?

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Speaker 3: own name verse twenty eight, the man said, your name

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Speaker 1: But Israel, because you have.

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Speaker 1: Name, but he replied, why do you ask my name?

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Speaker 3: Then he blessed him there so Jacob called the place

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Speaker 1: Face, and yet my life was spared.

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Speaker 3: Last verse, I want to read key verse for today,

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Speaker 3: Verse thirty one, Genesis, chapter thirty two. The sun rose

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Speaker 1: The sun rose above.

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Speaker 3: Him as he passed Tenneoh, and he was limping because

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Speaker 3: of his hip. Turn to your neighbor and say, I've

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Speaker 3: got good news. Tell them the limp won't make you late, and.

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Speaker 1: That good news. Let's pray. Father.

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Speaker 3: I commend your people to you now, and I ask

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Speaker 3: you to flow through me Holy Spirit, with clarity, supernatural accuracy,

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Speaker 3: and indelible power. Make an imprint on the lives of

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Speaker 3: your people, a mark that can't be erased. In Jesus' name, Amen,

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Speaker 3: touch your neighbor on your way to your seat, and

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Speaker 1: Praise God.

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Speaker 3: I think the reason that I'm perennially drawn to this

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Speaker 3: to teach people from the Bible, and that's the concept

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Speaker 3: of progressive revelation. And when I say progressive revelation, it's

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Speaker 3: you don't get confused at certain points in your life

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Speaker 1: Progressive revelation is the idea that as God is.

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Speaker 3: Going in the scriptures, we see more and more of

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Speaker 3: who He really is, and so you don't get all

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Speaker 3: don't get all of God just by reading Genesis, Exis

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Speaker 1: You don't get all of God. By reading all the

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Speaker 3: Because Jacob asked this angel for his name, and he's like, no,

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Speaker 3: to make sure you know your name. But God's name

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Speaker 3: what I mean by progressive revelation. Now, it's not like

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Speaker 3: about God's activity is that his revelation is on a schedule,

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Speaker 3: but this schedule is usually not seen by us. His

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Speaker 3: revelation is on schedule, and it's a schedule that you

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Speaker 1: So write that down as a point today, Revelation is scheduled.

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Speaker 3: Judging by the percentage of people who wrote that down

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Speaker 3: you'll need it an extra two hours of sleep.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure which one it was.

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Speaker 3: It's hard for me to believe that I'm pastoring this

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Speaker 3: Why is so crazy is when I visioned myself starting

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Speaker 3: the church when I was in my forties. So now

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Speaker 1: And that's just crazy to me.

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Speaker 3: And God set the schedule for when he wanted me

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Speaker 3: to do this. And then Holly, she's very Holly has

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Speaker 3: an interesting concept of time. Usually she's the one behind

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Speaker 1: She's doing a lot better with it.

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Speaker 3: There was one time where she was the one who

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Speaker 3: But in one of our first conversations about this church,

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Speaker 1: Go do this, And the.

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Speaker 3: Stupidity of youth, aided by faith in God, led us

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Speaker 3: Now, the thing about that is at the time that

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Speaker 3: about progressive revelation. There are a lot of mistakes that

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Speaker 3: I believe I made because I started the church so early,

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Speaker 3: twenty seven, there were some things I didn't know yet

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Speaker 3: about human nature, and to be honest, some things I

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Speaker 1: And he was ninety years old when this happened.

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Speaker 3: So tell somebody next to you, there's hope for you yet.

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Speaker 1: And one day I was just going through a list.

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Speaker 1: And now is just ah. And I'm just beating myself up.

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Speaker 3: That's my spiritual gift, just to beat the crap out

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Speaker 5: Why are you punishing.

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Speaker 6: Yourself over yesterday's mistake with today's revel.

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Speaker 1: The truth of.

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Speaker 3: The matter is that at every stage along the way

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Speaker 3: of leading this church, I've tried to do what I

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Speaker 3: And I can respect that, because even if I.

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Speaker 1: Came to see later then I could have done it better.

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Speaker 3: I led in the light that I had, with the

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Speaker 3: light that I had, with the knowledge.

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Speaker 1: That I had, with the wisdom that I had. Meager,

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Speaker 3: Led this church the best I could in the light

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Speaker 3: that I had. I want to call your attention to

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Speaker 3: two parts of Genesis, chapter thirty two, Verse thirty one.

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Speaker 3: One says the sun rose above Jacob as he passed,

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Speaker 3: and the other says he was limping.

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Speaker 3: Those two physical elements, but I want to use them

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Speaker 1: But neither of those will bring you close to God.

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Speaker 3: If I'm comparing myself to people, I'll always feel like

447
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Speaker 3: I was born behind. And here's why. Because everybody in

448
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Speaker 3: here has a limp. But some limps are more easily

449
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Speaker 3: hidden than others. Some limps show up later in life.

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Speaker 1: Some limps show up privately.

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Speaker 3: Some limps show up in intimate relationships. Some limps show

452
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Speaker 3: up in an inability to hold down a job.

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Speaker 1: Some limps have catastrophic results. Some limps have insidious.

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Speaker 7: Effects that no one can see.

455
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Speaker 8: Some limps you carry alone. But everybody came in here limping. Yeah,

456
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Speaker 8: you came, but you're limping. You've been limping this week.

457
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Speaker 3: It's been a long week because you've been limping, limping.

458
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Speaker 1: I'm limping.

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Speaker 5: I'm here, but I'm limping.

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Speaker 1: I love God, but I'm limping.

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Speaker 3: I'm bringing this back from last week because something needs

462
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Speaker 3: to break in our lives to where we stop showing

463
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Speaker 3: up on Sunday and not getting what we really need

464
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Speaker 3: from God because we don't want anybody to see where

465
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Speaker 3: we really limp, or where you stop coming to church

466
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Speaker 3: every time you have to limp in because.

467
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Speaker 1: You feel too guilty. That's how shame operates.

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Speaker 6: The time when you need to drag your behind to

469
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Speaker 6: this church the most is the time where you've done

470
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Speaker 6: the dumbest stuff in your life and you say, God,

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Speaker 6: I need a course correction.

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Speaker 5: God.

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Speaker 1: I need you to top me off. I need you

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Speaker 1: to fill me.

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Speaker 3: I feel empty, I feel.

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Speaker 1: Crazy, I don't feel.

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Speaker 3: Like myself limp in here and see if the Lord

478
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Speaker 3: won't lift you up. The Bible says, humble yourself.

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Speaker 6: Under the mighty hand of God, and in due time.

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Speaker 1: He'll lift you up.

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Speaker 3: So watch this, somebody say, the light is coming. It's

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Speaker 3: a new day dawning on Jacob. The sun is coming

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Speaker 3: up over Jacob. The night is over, the wrestling is over,

484
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Speaker 3: the struggle is over.

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Speaker 5: He has let go.

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Speaker 1: Of his old self.

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Speaker 3: He has received a new name. He has been touched

488
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Speaker 3: and transformed by God. He is carrying destiny. He is

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Speaker 3: on his way to his purpose.

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Speaker 1: But he's limping.

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Speaker 3: Because the light doesn't stuck the limb. Just because you

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Speaker 3: know doesn't mean you can do it.

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Speaker 6: It just because God.

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Speaker 3: Just because God shows you who is calling you to be,

495
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Speaker 3: doesn't mean you yet have the courage to do it.

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Speaker 3: Everything that I've become in my life, everything I've accomplished

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Speaker 3: in my life that was worthwhile for God, I confess

498
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Speaker 3: to you, I limped into it. What are you limping

499
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Speaker 3: into today? The light is coming and Jacob is limping,

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Speaker 3: and those are not mutually exclusive. I don't know if

501
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 3: this is too deep, if I'm preaching it. Maybe if

502
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 3: at the wrong time to the wrong people or something

503
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Speaker 3: like that. I thought this was the right message because

504
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 3: sometimes we get confused that we think when the light comes,

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Speaker 3: the limping stops. We think that when we see Jesus,

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Speaker 3: meet Jesus, receive Jesus, growing Jesus, that that means that

507
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Speaker 3: we're automatically going to accelerate and reach the place where

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Speaker 3: He's called us to be.

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Speaker 9: The evidence of this meeting with Jesus was a limp

510
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Speaker 9: that never left Jacob's life. So I suggest to you

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Speaker 9: that some of the times of the greatest light will

512
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Speaker 9: also be the times of the greatest limp. And the

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Speaker 9: Bible says that Jacob limped all the way to the

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Speaker 9: place where he met his brother aside, you can get

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Speaker 9: their limping.

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Speaker 3: Where God has taken you, where he's calling you, what

517
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Speaker 3: he's drawing out of you, what he's using you to do,

518
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Speaker 3: what he's moving you into, how he's maturing you, how

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Speaker 3: he's growing you.

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Speaker 1: It might not be pretty, that's all right, nobody's is all.

521
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Speaker 1: The pretty people.

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Speaker 3: Just have really hidden limbs, just really hidden limbs, and

523
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Speaker 3: some of the people with the biggest strut are compensating

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Speaker 3: for something that they're dragging behind them. Now imagine you're Jacob,

525
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Speaker 3: and maybe this is how you feel in your life.

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Speaker 3: He's coming up on something that is the most important

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Speaker 3: meeting he's ever had.

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Speaker 1: If this goes bad, Esau kills him. The stakes are high.

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Speaker 1: How many WOUM say that's high stakes?

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Speaker 3: And it's not like it's even going to be a

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Speaker 3: close call because Esau is a skilled hunter.

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Speaker 1: Jacob is a skilled cook. By the way, that's.

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Speaker 3: Part of the reason that Jacob felt very insecure in

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Speaker 3: his life because he never had his father's love. His

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Speaker 3: father loved Esau, so one of the reasons he pretended

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Speaker 3: to be his brother was to get the love of

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Speaker 3: a father who expected him to be something that he

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Speaker 3: could never become because it wasn't according to his purpose.

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Speaker 3: Jacob isn't just limping at age ninety. He's been limping

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Speaker 3: all of his life because of the love that he

541
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Speaker 3: didn't get from the only one who could really confer.

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Speaker 1: A blessing on him. He's limping.

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Speaker 3: See, there is a reason if in your life you're

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Speaker 3: not who you're supposed to be. Yet there's a reason

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Speaker 3: for that. There's an explanation for him. Yeah, I would

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Speaker 3: love to be a better wife, but it's hard for

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Speaker 3: me because I didn't see that model. I've been limping.

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Speaker 3: I would love to be a more patient person, but

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Speaker 3: I grew up in a family where people exploded with

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Speaker 3: their temper, and I am trying to unlearn that template

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Speaker 3: so that I can change it and turn it around

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Speaker 3: so my kids don't live with my limp. And I

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Speaker 3: wish I was farther along, and I wish I had

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Speaker 3: saved more money, but nobody taught.

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Speaker 1: Me how to do this thing.

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Speaker 6: So I went into debt trying to compensate for the love.

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Speaker 1: That I didn't get.

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Speaker 6: I went into debt trying to compensate for the approval

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Speaker 6: that I didn't get. I've been limping my whole life.

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Speaker 6: I've been struggling my whole life.

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Speaker 3: And the truth of it is, some of the people

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Speaker 3: that are critical of you would celebrate you.

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Speaker 1: If they could understand how hard.

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Speaker 3: It was for you to get to this point with

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Speaker 3: your limp. And don't let them intimidate you when they

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Speaker 3: show you their dance. Because everybody limps somewhere. Everybody limps somewhere.

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Speaker 5: They're not farther along than you.

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Speaker 3: They're just called to a different place than you, so

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Speaker 3: they have a different pace from you. So when you

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Speaker 3: get there on Thanksgiving and they say I thought you'd

571
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Speaker 3: be married by now, say I thought you would have

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Speaker 3: learned how to pray and let God lead me by now,

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Speaker 3: and stop trying to manipulate my life.

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Speaker 10: I'm not late.

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Speaker 5: I'm moving this thing along. The man i'm gonna marry

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Speaker 5: is still earning his millions.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm not late.

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Speaker 5: I'm not late. This is a layover.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna get some blessings, some maturity, some strength, some lessons,

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Speaker 3: some truth.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna get some things while I'm in Laban's house.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, when I get where God is taking me, I

583
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Speaker 3: got everything I need.

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Speaker 5: Humble yourself. Tell your neighbor your limp won't make you late.

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Speaker 3: Because what I love about Jacob is he's been up

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Speaker 3: all night. He's tired, he's scared, he's afraid, he's in turmoil.

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00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 3: He's got an ulcer. He's about the fight his brother.

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00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 3: He doesn't know what's gonna happen next. He's uncertain, he's anxious. Pastor,

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Speaker 3: I thought you were talking about Jacob. It sounds like

590
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 3: you're talking about me. We're talking about all of us.

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00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 3: We're talking about all of us. But the sun's coming up.

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Speaker 3: The sun's coming up. The Sun's coming up. It's a

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Speaker 3: new day in Jacob's life. And so watch what he does.

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Speaker 3: Verse thirty one my favorite verse this week. I'll have

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Speaker 3: a different favorite verse next week. I changed favorite verses

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Speaker 3: Like most people change shoes. I change favorite versus every

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Speaker 3: chance I get. Genesis thirty two, Verse thirty one, it says,

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Speaker 3: and the sun rose.

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Speaker 1: The light came, and he was limping.

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Speaker 3: Now not only do I have to face he saw,

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Speaker 3: but I gotta do it limping, and that means I

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00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:22,839
Speaker 3: can't even run. Has God got you in a place

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Speaker 3: right now where you can't run from it? And did

604
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 3: he do that intentionally? Is he trying to show you

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Speaker 3: who you really are, who He really is? Have you

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Speaker 3: been caught in the constant comparison trap where it is

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Speaker 3: a cycle that makes you sick, a nauseating noticing of

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Speaker 3: what everybody else has that you don't have.

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Speaker 5: Wait up, I'm limping. I'm trying to catch you, but

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00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:56,440
Speaker 5: I can't.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: Not only did Jacob feel this way, your great apostle

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00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 3: Paul felt this way. He was writing to the Corinthian

614
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Speaker 3: Church and they were doubting his credentials as an apostle.

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Speaker 3: They said he didn't speak as well as a polus.

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Speaker 3: So I wrote him a letter. When he got to

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Speaker 3: about chapter fifteen of First Corinthians, that's a long letter,

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Speaker 3: he started telling him how he really felt about it.

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Speaker 3: He said, verse three, for what I received, I passed

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Speaker 3: on to you as of first importance. Now that underscores

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Speaker 3: the first part of my message. I started this message

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Speaker 3: by telling you that we are all leading in the

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Speaker 3: light that we have. That's what Paul said. He said,

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Speaker 3: in the light that I have. I passed it on

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Speaker 3: to you. Now Paul had more light than Jacob because

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Speaker 3: he lived in the aftermath of the resurrection, not only

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Speaker 3: the birth and death of Jesus Christ, but the resurrection.

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Speaker 3: So he said, I received this revelation and I passed

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Speaker 3: it on to you as a first important that Christ

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Speaker 3: died for our sins according to the scriptures, and on

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Speaker 3: the third that he was buried, that he was raised

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Speaker 3: on the third day according to the scriptures, and that

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Speaker 3: he appeared to Cephists as Peter, and then to the twelve.

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Speaker 1: Now watch how long the list is that Paul gives,

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Speaker 1: and I'll show you why I'm reading this.

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Speaker 6: After that he appeared to more than five hundred of

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Speaker 6: the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of

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Speaker 6: whom are still living, though some of them have fallen asleep.

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Speaker 1: Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles,

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Speaker 1: and last of all, he appeared to me, also as

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Speaker 1: to one abnormally born.

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Speaker 3: Last of all, if you ask for people to quote

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00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 3: a scripture from the New Testament, the first ones that

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Speaker 3: come to our mind are written by this guy, Paul.

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Speaker 3: I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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Speaker 1: Learn the secret of being content.

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Speaker 3: I am crucified with Christ, all of these wonderful things that.

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Speaker 1: He passed on to us, the apostle Paul.

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Speaker 3: And yet he said I was the last one that

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Speaker 3: he appeared to in a literal chronological sense. He meant

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Speaker 3: it that after Jesus had been taken up and they

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Speaker 3: all got to see him in bodily form, he had

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Speaker 3: to knock Paul down on the Damascus road, blind his eyes,

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Speaker 3: and change his name from Saul to Paul, and bring

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Speaker 3: him to a place of conversion. But he also meant

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Speaker 3: it a little differently. Look at the verse again, verse eight,

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Speaker 3: that says as to one abnormally born. Many believed that

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Speaker 3: Paul was speaking here of the fact that the Corinthians

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Speaker 3: called him names he was very small.

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Speaker 1: That's literally what his name means, Paul means small. So

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Speaker 1: there is much speculation among.

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Speaker 3: Scholars that Paul was called the small one, the little one.

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Speaker 3: There's even language in this text that makes us think

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Speaker 3: that maybe Paul was calling himself some kind of freak.

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Speaker 1: I'm a freak. I came last.

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Speaker 7: He showed up to all the other apostles in physical form.

667
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Speaker 1: But to me, I was the last one.

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Speaker 3: And yet Paul says, even though I got a late start,

669
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Speaker 3: even though I don't deserve it, even though I might

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Speaker 3: be smaller than less than and.

671
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Speaker 7: Have seen less than look at verse nine, for.

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Speaker 3: I am the least of the apostles, and do not

673
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Speaker 3: even deserve to be called an apostle because I persecuted

674
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Speaker 3: the Church of God. Do you see how he's still

675
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Speaker 3: limping over the life that he lived before he met Christ.

676
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Speaker 5: He never got.

677
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Speaker 3: Over that he was present at the stoning of Stephen,

678
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Speaker 3: and he.

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Speaker 5: Never forgot it.

680
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:00,959
Speaker 6: That guilt never went away from Paul, that shame never

681
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Speaker 6: fully left him. He is still dealing with it and

682
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Speaker 6: the church that he's trying to lead is throwing it

683
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Speaker 6: back in.

684
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Speaker 3: His face, and he says, I'm not going to argue

685
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Speaker 3: with you about that. I'm not gonna pretend that I

686
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Speaker 3: don't limp. I'm not gonna try to pretend like I

687
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Speaker 3: was the first in line. I'm not here because I

688
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Speaker 3: was the first in line.

689
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Speaker 6: I'm here by faith, through grace and the grace of

690
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Speaker 6: God that reached for me, that reached and pulled me

691
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Speaker 6: from the back of the line.

692
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Speaker 5: I came to.

693
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Speaker 3: Preach to somebody who's been limping. I've been behind lately.

694
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Speaker 3: I don't know what I need to know. I didn't

695
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Speaker 3: get what I wanted to have.

696
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Speaker 5: But watch what Paul said, give me the next verse.

697
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Speaker 5: I'm the least. I don't deserve it. But by the grace.

698
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Speaker 3: Of God, I am what I am. I'm not racing

699
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Speaker 3: to become something that I'm not called to be.

700
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Speaker 1: I am what I am.

701
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Speaker 5: Somebody say, I.

702
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Speaker 3: Am what I am, and where I am is where

703
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Speaker 3: the great I am wanting me to be. So I'm limping,

704
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Speaker 3: but I'm not late. So I'm not up to your standard.

705
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:25,319
Speaker 3: But I'm not living for your approval because I'm not

706
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 3: created by your hand. Because my days aren't ordained in

707
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:31,799
Speaker 3: your book.

708
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 5: I find somebody say I'm right on time.

709
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:37,840
Speaker 1: I'm right on time.

710
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 6: Because watch this. The light is coming. The light is coming.

711
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:47,879
Speaker 6: The light is coming. The light is coming. The light

712
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Speaker 6: is coming.

713
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Speaker 10: I've been depressed, but.

714
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:51,880
Speaker 5: The light is coming.

715
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 10: I've been down having rubble figuring it out, but the

716
00:41:56,320 --> 00:42:01,800
Speaker 10: light is coming. I've been unsure, down on myself, rolling

717
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Speaker 10: in his security.

718
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Speaker 6: But the light is coming. The light is coming. The

719
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:12,240
Speaker 6: light is coming. The joy is coming.

720
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,839
Speaker 5: A new day is darning. I'm waking up.

721
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 3: So what I always was, I am what I am

722
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Speaker 3: by the grace of God, and the grace that brought

723
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 3: me safe thus far will lead me home. If I

724
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Speaker 3: gotta get their limpis, if I gotta get there a.

725
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Speaker 5: Little behind, if I gotta get there.

726
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Speaker 10: Tuesday, if I gotta put it back to Wednesday, if

727
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Speaker 10: I gotta.

728
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Speaker 3: Make up for it at the end of wedding three,

729
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Speaker 3: I shall do it.

730
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Speaker 1: And the Lord said, it's no coinci. Then I'm preaching

731
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:03,280
Speaker 1: this on daylight.

732
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Speaker 3: Save these times Sunday, because something happened this morning. When

733
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 3: you woke up, you had an extra hour you didn't

734
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 3: know you have. God said, I'm gonna give you time

735
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna restore the years.

736
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Speaker 5: You're gonna have time to do it.

737
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:32,439
Speaker 3: Whoever is forrests hidden deep right now. And I don't

738
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 3: want this shout to get in the way of your

739
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:37,880
Speaker 3: receiving this ministry, because it is a terrible thing to

740
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 3: watch everybody else go ahead of you and feel like

741
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 3: you're limping, to watch everybody else be happy and feel

742
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:45,839
Speaker 3: like there's some demon in you that won't let.

743
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: You enjoy life, to watch everybody else.

744
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:50,319
Speaker 3: Move up in their career, and to feel like you

745
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 3: keep moving backwards, staying plateaued. Every time you get a

746
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 3: little momentum, you get a little set back.

747
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: You're limping.

748
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 3: But the grace of God came to Paul, if God

749
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Speaker 3: came to Jacob, the light of God is dawning in

750
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Speaker 3: your life to let you know.

751
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Speaker 1: You're not late.

752
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Speaker 3: In order for you to be late, there would have

753
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Speaker 3: had to be something that God did not account for

754
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Speaker 3: that happened.

755
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Speaker 1: In your life.

756
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Speaker 3: And if something happened in your life that God didn't

757
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Speaker 3: account for, then he's not God.

758
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Speaker 1: So the fact that God started.

759
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Speaker 11: It means that he knows where it's supposed to be

760
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Speaker 11: right now, means that when God called you, he accounted

761
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Speaker 11: for traffic.

762
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Speaker 3: I'm so tired of watching people beat themselves up over

763
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:51,800
Speaker 3: comparison that has nothing to do with their calling, asking

764
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:54,359
Speaker 3: little four year olds what college are you applying to.

765
00:44:55,480 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 3: We've gone absolutely crazy in this culture to say to

766
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 3: you that the spirit that gets on you, that has

767
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 3: you subjecting yourself to a standard that has nothing to

768
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Speaker 3: do with the spirit of God. It has to let

769
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 3: you go right now, in the name of Jesus, put

770
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Speaker 3: your Christmas lights up in February for all I care.

771
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Speaker 1: I'm not late. I abide in Christ.

772
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:31,320
Speaker 3: And since I abide in Him, that means that everything

773
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 3: in His season that is supposed to come forth is

774
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Speaker 3: coming up.

775
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Speaker 1: Somebody's shout is coming up.

776
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Speaker 3: Say I abide in Christ, and everything in my life

777
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 3: is coming up, is coming up. Say it again, I

778
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:52,280
Speaker 3: abide in Christ, and everything in my life is coming

779
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 3: up lovely in abundance at just the right time.

780
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Speaker 1: I dare you to give God a praise for that.

781
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.

782
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 1: The light's coming.

783
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Speaker 12: Man.

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Speaker 1: I know it's been a dark night. You've been wrestling alone,

785
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:23,319
Speaker 1: you've been feeling behind your whole life. But the light

786
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 1: is coming limp into it.

787
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Speaker 3: I said, Lord, what do you want me to tell

788
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Speaker 3: them about this message that they can never forget?

789
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Speaker 1: He said, to tell him limp into it. Limp into it, because.

790
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Speaker 3: One thing I love about Jacob he might have been limping,

791
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 3: but he didn't lay down. And that's how you accomplish it,

792
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 3: and that's how you make it, and that's how you grow,

793
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 3: and that's how you know who God is.

794
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:02,319
Speaker 1: Is you limp into it.

795
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Speaker 3: The beauty of today's limp, he said, it becomes tomorrow's lean.

796
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Speaker 3: Follow me real quick, y'all got like three minutes for

797
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 3: me to finish this message. M it'd be weird if

798
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Speaker 3: I preached a message called You're not late and you

799
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Speaker 3: told me to hurry up and finish my message. Be

800
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 3: kind of ironic because I was reading about I was

801
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Speaker 3: reading about the end of Jacob's life. Yeah, Minister l J,

802
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 3: that'll be good. He uh, he lived fifty more years

803
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:56,799
Speaker 3: after this wrestling match. So guess what he saw didn't

804
00:47:56,840 --> 00:48:00,759
Speaker 3: kill him.

805
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 1: He Sau didn't kill him. He had to limp to Esau.

806
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 3: In Genesis thirty three, verse four, the Bible says that

807
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 3: he made his way toward Esau. Remember, he's limping and

808
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 3: as Esau's coming toward and the Bible says verse four

809
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 3: Genesis thirty three, Verse four, I got shit.

810
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 1: It says that Esau ran to me Jacob, and the

811
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Speaker 1: beauty of that is that Jacob couldn't run to it,

812
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 1: so it ran to him. Did you hear what I

813
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 1: just said to you?

814
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 3: Because you've been thinking, well, if I would have had

815
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 3: this opportunity sooner, I could have done it.

816
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Speaker 1: But I can't now because look where I am now.

817
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:47,719
Speaker 3: No, no, no, you limped to it, and God will make

818
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:56,719
Speaker 3: it run to you. In fact, when the writer of

819
00:48:56,760 --> 00:49:01,239
Speaker 3: Hebrews many centuries later, remember it's progress of revelation. We

820
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Speaker 3: don't even know at this point in the story that

821
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Speaker 3: Jacob and Esau are going to go.

822
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Speaker 1: And you don't even know at.

823
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Speaker 3: This point in the story that this is the nation

824
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Speaker 3: of Israel that Jacob is carrying with them. We don't

825
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Speaker 3: know any of that yet, and you don't know any

826
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:17,880
Speaker 3: of that yet. But it's all on God's schedule of revelation,

827
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Speaker 3: so that at the end of Jacob's life. This is

828
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Speaker 3: what the author of Hebrews said about in verse twenty,

829
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Speaker 3: that by faith Hebrews eleven, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau

830
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Speaker 3: concerning things to come.

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Speaker 1: Now watch this, and this is how I want you

832
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Speaker 1: to leave today. Verse twenty one.

833
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Speaker 3: By Faith Jacob, when he was dying, fifty years after

834
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Speaker 3: he wrestled with God.

835
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Speaker 1: When he was dying, blessed each of.

836
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Speaker 3: The sons of Joseph and worshiped leaning on the top

837
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Speaker 3: of his staff.

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Speaker 1: So what it means to me is that my limping

839
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Speaker 1: today will teach me to lean tomorrow.

840
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Speaker 3: The greatest blessing of Jacob's life happen not as he

841
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:22,520
Speaker 3: was running grabbing, but as he was leaning. So the

842
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:27,399
Speaker 3: Lord said, limp into it. But make sure that what

843
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 3: you're leaning on can hold you as you do, because

844
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Speaker 3: for what you're going through. You can't lean on the addiction.

845
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:39,839
Speaker 3: It won't hold you for what you're going through right now.

846
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Speaker 3: You can't lean on your own understanding. It can't direct

847
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 3: you for what you're going through right now. You certainly

848
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:50,319
Speaker 3: cannot lean on what other people are saying that you

849
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:53,319
Speaker 3: should do because they don't know either. They are just

850
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Speaker 3: as lost as you, and they don't have the light.

851
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Speaker 3: So today, if you've been limping and yet you see

852
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:06,799
Speaker 3: some light coming through, I want you to stand up,

853
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:09,280
Speaker 3: because I want to pray for you, in this moment

854
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:12,240
Speaker 3: and in this season of your life, that you would

855
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:18,360
Speaker 3: not lie down and die in the light, but that

856
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:26,000
Speaker 3: you would live to see the scheduled revelation of who

857
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 3: God has created you to be and what He's called

858
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Speaker 3: you to do. Father, in Jesus' name, I take a

859
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Speaker 3: page from Hebrews chapter eleven, and I bless your people

860
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Speaker 3: by faith for some of the things that were going

861
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Speaker 3: forward into nothing.

862
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Speaker 1: But faith will get us there. Nothing but faith will

863
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Speaker 1: carry us forward.

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Speaker 3: Specifically, now, I want to pray for someone who has

865
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Speaker 3: been limping and thought that it made them less.

866
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Speaker 1: And maybe the light that you want to give them today.

867
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Speaker 3: Is knowledge that you've still got them right where you

868
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:07,360
Speaker 3: want them, and even just that would be enough to

869
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Speaker 3: keep them going forward.

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Speaker 1: Our eyes are on you, Jesus, the author and the

871
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Speaker 1: finisher of our faith.

872
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 3: We fix our eyes not on things that are seen,

873
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:26,279
Speaker 3: but things that are unseen, for what is seen is temporary,

874
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:32,879
Speaker 3: but what is unseen is eternal. Thank you for the light,

875
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 3: Thank you for your word. Thank you for the Gospel

876
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 3: of your son Jesus. Thank you that we don't wander

877
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Speaker 3: like those in darkness, hopeless.

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Speaker 1: Thank you that you have not left.

879
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:46,920
Speaker 3: Us in our ignorance, but you have given us the

880
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:48,120
Speaker 3: light of the revelation.

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Speaker 7: And this in the face of Christ, the glory of God.

882
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:52,200
Speaker 7: We have seen you.

883
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Speaker 1: Face to face, and yet we did not die.

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Speaker 3: We call this place Panio, and we thank you for

885
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:00,239
Speaker 3: the light of the gospel flooding in.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for new beginnings today.

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Speaker 3: Right now I want to pray for somebody who needs

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Speaker 3: to make this stay their new beginning, somebody who the

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Speaker 3: Lord Jesus Christ is calling unto himself.

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Speaker 1: Right now. You know, when the light comes and you.

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Speaker 3: Can't see any way forward, but that next step, that's

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Speaker 3: all God calls you to take. The very first step

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Speaker 3: of faith, is to give your life to Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 1: And right now it would be.

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Speaker 3: My privilege and my honor if you say I've been

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Speaker 3: far away from God and this message.

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Speaker 1: Today I feel God drawing me back.

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Speaker 3: And yes I'm limping, and yes I'm limited, and yes

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Speaker 3: I've wasted some time, but I'm coming toward the light today.

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Speaker 1: You take that one step toward him.

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Speaker 3: He will carry you, he will rescue you, he will

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Speaker 3: save you, he will cleanse you, he will forgive you,

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Speaker 3: he will make you.

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Speaker 1: A new creation. He will change your name. With head's

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Speaker 1: ballot and eyes closed.

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Speaker 3: All over this campus and all of our campuses, We're

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Speaker 3: going to pray a prayer out loud for those who

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Speaker 3: are coming to God, are coming back to God. Repeat

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Speaker 3: this prayer after me, Heavenly Father. I am a sinner

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Speaker 3: in need of a savior, and I believe that Jesus

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Speaker 3: Christ is the Son of God and the savior of

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Speaker 3: the world.

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Speaker 1: And today I make Jesus the Lord of my life.

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Speaker 3: I believe he died that I would be forgiven and

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Speaker 3: rose again to give me life. I receive this new life.

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Speaker 3: This is my new beginning. On the count of three,

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Speaker 3: raise your hand. If you prayed that one, two, three,

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Speaker 3: shoot your hand up. I want to celebrate with you

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Speaker 3: thought that.

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Speaker 10: The Lord.

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Speaker 3: Along. Can we clap our hands?

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Speaker 5: Can we celebrate together?

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Speaker 7: Thank you Jesus.

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Speaker 3: Hey.

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Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did,

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Speaker 2: make sure to share it and subscribe so we can

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Speaker 2: get you all of these new messages as soon as

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Speaker 2: they're available. I also want to take a moment and

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Speaker 2: thank all of you who are a part of Elevation,

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Speaker 2: whether you support us financially or serve with us or

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Speaker 2: just share these messages. It's because of you that we're

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Speaker 2: able to reach people all around the world.

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Speaker 1: And if you want more information on how to be

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Speaker 1: a part of Elevation, click the link in the description.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening.

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Speaker 2: Make sure to leave a review, share the message and subscribe.

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